Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide

This practical guide is for readers familiar with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) but not expert at administering it. The text offers everything from a review of MOM 2005 architecture and internals to planning and deployment guidelines, advanced troubleshooting and more.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) allows the administrator to troubleshoot and prevent problems that may exist in Microsoft server networks. The text offers everything from an in-depth review of MOM architecture and internals to planning and deployment guidelines, to advanced troubleshooting, and integration with popular management frameworks like Tivoli. Appendices include custom upgrade guides for MOM 2000 to MOM 2005 and from MOM 2005 to MOM 2005 SP1. The problems and solutions discussed are strictly practical and real-world, based on the authors' own experience. Rather attempting to be too comprehensive for daily use, the book is written for an audience familiar with MOM but not expert at administering it. It focuses on difficulties that are most likely to cause grief. The solutions and troubleshooting tips are concise, and to the point. The chapters are standalone and can be referenced in any order.

Based on the field experiences of MOM experts Provides quick solutions and troubleshooting tips for an experienced audience Includes MOM integration with System Management Server

Autorentext
Andy Dominey is a Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" and works in the U.K. as a Microsoft Operations Manager/infrastructure consultant. He has been responsible for the IT systems of many large-scale customers including the British Army and a company supplying mobile phone services to major U.K. mobile operators. Andy currently contributes MOM solutions to myITforum.com and the Microsoft MOM community. Andy has been in the IT industry for about seven years. He started out as a field service and support engineer, and then worked his way up to systems administrator responsible for MOM, AD, Exchange, web hosting, and SAN and clustering for an Exchange hosting provider based in the U.K.

Klappentext

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) allows administrators to troubleshoot - and prevent - problems in Microsoft server networks. The text offers everything from a review of MOM 2005 architecture and internals to planning and deployment guidelines, advanced troubleshooting, and integration with popular management frameworks like Tivoli. Appendices include custom upgrade guides. The approach is strictly practical and real-world, based on the authors' own experience. The book is written for an audience familiar with MOM but not expert at administering it. The solutions and troubleshooting tips are concise, and to the point. The chapters are standalone and can be referenced in any order.

Inhalt

Architecture and Internals (Garry).- Planning and Deploying (installation, normal/advanced configuration, including multitier, multihomed and advanced database redundancy) (Andy/Garry).- Management Pack (installation and configuration) (Garry).- Operations in MOM (incident process, ITIL and MOF) (Garry).- Rule Creation (Andy).- Alerts (suppression, tweaking, troubleshooting) (Andy).- Reports (authoring, generation, subscriptions) (Andy).- Custom Reports (Andy).- DTS Package Monitoring and Troubleshooting (Andy).- Connector Framework (Garry).- MOM SDK (Andy).- Advanced Troubleshooting (Garry).- Troubleshooting Scripts (Garry).- Integration with Management Frameworks (e.g. Tivoli) (Garry).- Security (Garry).- Appendix A. Upgrading MOM 2000 SP1 to MOM 2005 (Andy).- Appendix B. Upgrading MOM 2005 to MOM 2005 SP1 (Andy).